1912 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*The Omega Workshops are founded by members of the Bloomsbury group.
*Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes publish the first major treatise on Cubism, entitled "Du Cubisme".
*William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.

Works

*Pierre Bonnard - "St Tropez, Pier"
*Paul Émile Chabas - "September Morn" (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
*Marcel Duchamp - "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"
*Lydia Field Emmet - "Self Portrait"
*Fernand Léger - "La Fumée (Smoke)"
*Pablo Picasso - "Violon, verre, pipe et encrier"
*T. F. Simon - "Second Hand Booksellers, Spring"

Births

January to June

*7 January - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d.1988).
*28 January - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.1956).
*7 February - Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (d.1981).
*4 March - Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d.1976).
*22 March - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter (d.2004).
*14 April - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d.1994).
*4 June - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993).

July to December

*4 September - Syd Hoff, American children’s book author and cartoonist (d.2004).
*5 September - Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001).
*5 September - Frank Thomas, American animator (d.2004).
*23 September - Tony Smith, American sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980).
*31 October - Ollie Johnston, American animator (d.2008).
*28 November - Morris Louis, American painter (d.1962).
*27 December - Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005).

Full date unknown

*William Baziotes, painter (d.1963).
*John Deakin, British photographer (d.1972).
*Harry Holtzman, American artist (d.1987).
*Ida Kohlmeyer, painter and sculptor (d.1997).
*Alexander Liberman, painter and sculptor (d.1999).
*Albert Malet, French painter (d.1986).

Deaths

*March 29 - John Gerrard Keulemans, bird illustrator
*May 2 - Homer Davenport, cartoonist
*June 25 - Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (b. 1836)
*November 1 - John Emms, painter
*December 23 - Édouard Detaille, painter
*"date unknown" - Tony Robert-Fleury, painter